You asked about Entertainment
12 people built something like it. 12 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-06-01 | Social avatar platform for VTubers · hyper.online | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | Premium immersive cinematic VR entertainment for captive audiences · skylights.aero | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Video publishing and monetization platform for creators and artists · gigs.live | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | YCIxora We create the digital outdoor environment for a movie. · ixora.org | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | A video subscription platform serving black viewers and creators. · blackoak.tv | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCFigments Building worlds at technological inflection points · plotdrive.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | YCFameGame Live and interactive TV shows for mobile - starting with American… · itunes.apple.com | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | Find the best electronic music events in a single message. · m.me | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Virtual events for remote teams · miniexhibitions.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCUnnyhog Video game development company.We are creating unique and… · unnyhog.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCMoFE Next generation Disney. · mofe.co | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | YCHipset The best way for artists to release new music and videos. · tracksby.com | gone |
How this compares
The register re-probes every domain it holds. Some that answered last month stop answering. We send that list — what went quiet, and what it was — once a month. Nothing else.
How this was made. Show HN entries are every post from 2021 to 2023 with at least five points that linked to its own domain; code hosts and free hosting are excluded, because a repository outlives the effort behind it. Product Hunt entries needed 100 votes — a far higher bar, so they are the promoted top slice rather than a like-for-like sample. Both are judged by asking the domain whether it still answers: gone means it no longer resolves, refuses the connection, serves a parking page, or says plainly that it shut down. An HTTP error is not counted as gone — a server answering 404 is one somebody still pays for, and an audit of 25 gone-calls found two such sites alive with only a moved homepage. Y Combinator entries use the status YC publishes itself, which is why only those can say acquired. Squatted domains — a lapsed name now serving somebody else's site — are not detected, so these figures run slightly low.